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Peer interviewing
Peer interviewing: how to involve peers in interviewing
Peer interviewing – where coworkers interview potential new hires – offers you the chance to create a great team. In peer interviewing, members of a work group help choose new employees. [ go]
Behavioural interviews Interviews that review behaviour
Behavioural interviews | Interviews that review behaviour
Behavioural interviews give employers a chance to learn about a potential employee’s perspectives and attitudes. In a behavioural interview, [ go]
Soft skills Tips for evaluating soft skills
Soft skills: Tips for evaluating soft skills
Soft skills elude many hiring managers. That’s because soft skills rarely fit into standardized tests. Whereas it’s relatively easy to run tests on typing, editing, math or filing, it’s much harder to test for integrity, honesty, relationship building and teamwork. [ go]
Stay Interviews
Stay Interviews
Worried a key member of your team could leave? Hold a stay interview and hope you’ll never need to do an exit interview. [ go]
Exit interviews: don't just say goodbye
Exit interviews: don’t just say goodbye
Exit interviews can be just as important as the interviews you conducted when you hired an employee. When an employee leaves your organization, it’s important to get feedback on their experience. [ go]
Avoiding Interview Pitfalls
Avoiding Interview Pitfalls
Have you ever hired someone only to find out later the individual wasn't a good match for the job? If you have, you're not alone. Employment decisions are never easy and there's plenty of room for mistakes along the way. [ go]
Interviewing potential employees
Interviewing potential employees
Interviewing potential employees is a tricky process. Although resources abound for employees seeking job interview secrets, interviewing potential employees seems to have eluded the media. [ go]
Pre-screening job applicants
Pre-screening job applicants
Pre-screening job applicants allows employers to narrow down the pool of applicants to those who are the best fit for the position—without spending hours doing in-depth interviews. [ go]
Employee background check should include references
Employee background check should include references
Employee background check lists should include a review of references. But to be strategic, you’ll want to think about how best to use references in recruitment. Here’s how. [ go]